Chapter 9 Job Hunting
John laughed and took out a bunch of keys: "The first gift is a detective agency. If you want to be a detective, you can keep it. If you don't want to be a detective , you can sell the detective agency."
Liang Xi was startled: "John, your health is not so bad that you need to retire."
John did not answer Liang Xi's question. He pushed the key in front of Liang Xi and said, "The detective agency is yours now. I have contacted the lawyer and he will handle the formalities . After the formalities are completed, the lawyer will give you a check for 5,000 pounds for the daily expenses of the detective agency. Whether you can make money depends on your ability."
Liang Xi heard a small problem: "Why did the lawyer give me 5,000 pounds?"
John replied: "Because the lawyer owes me five thousand pounds, I'm using this as a pretext to get him to pay me back."
Liang Xi nodded. I see. Trust your thigh.
John pushed the car keys on the table and said, "As a detective, you definitely need a way to get around. The car is yours too."
John thought Liang Xi would be very happy, but he didn't expect Liang Xi to drink a cup of tea silently before accepting the key, with an unpredictable expression on his face. This is playing tricks on oneself. It was originally a prank to tease John, but he didn't expect that the clown in the end would be himself. Could it be that the old man had calculated that he would plot against him, so he turned around to pit himself?
Mary did not participate in the conversation between the two men. She heard that it was time to bake the cake, so she went to the kitchen to get busy. John saw Mary enter the living room and go to the kitchen, and hesitant to speak. Liang Xi noticed something unusual and asked, "Do you want a divorce?"
The detective's imagination is like this, not only strange but also jumping. But John did not refute. After thinking for a while, he said, "If you can have dinner with Mary once a month, I think she will be very happy."
Liang Xi said: "30 times a month is fine. But your name is John Charles, not John Bill Gates."
John laughed: "Haha!"
This is indirect hint. John has been hanging out with an old friend named Matthew recently, and they have been eating out together, sometimes for a whole day. In addition to the fact that he gave the detective agency and the car to Liang Xi, Liang Xi speculated that John had something wrong recently. In his mind, Liang Xi listed the possible changes that might happen to John. Terminal illness? Impossible, because Mary is a retired doctor. Without Mary's coercion, John would not go for a physical examination. John is definitely the last person to know about the terminal illness. In addition to the terminal illness, the second worst possibility is divorce.
John did not deny Liang Xi's proposal for divorce, which made Liang Xi quite worried. He knew Mary's love for John. To put it in a metaphor, Mary would rather John live like a vegetable and she would be busy serving and taking care of John every day, rather than John passing away first. The divorce was a bigger blow to Mary than John's death.
However, John was very cunning and did not admit the divorce, so Liang Xi could not express his thoughts on the matter. Mary brought out cupcakes and the two men started talking about the case again. Mary sat in a rocking chair, knitting a sweater while listening to the two men chatting. This was her happiest time now.
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Liang Xi bought half a barrel of gasoline from his neighbor, got into the car with Mary, and drove to his residence. Liang Xi's residence was an apartment on Rumple Road, not far from the university and the detective agency.
Rumple Road, also known as Apartment Road, is a well-known apartment community in London. The main tenants are white-collar workers and students. Liang Xi lives in Building 19, Room 2102. The room is not big, with a total area of more than 50 square meters. There is a kitchen, a bathroom, a living room, and a bedroom. The things in the house are very simple, a second-hand computer, a bed, a table, a chair, and a wardrobe. There is no coffee table or sofa in the living room, and a pile of plastic stools are placed in the corner to deal with possible visitors.
Liang Xi doesn't have many clothes. In summer, he wears a T-shirt, jeans, and sneakers. In winter, he wears a sweatshirt, a jacket, thermal underwear, jeans, and sneakers. In spring and autumn, he decides what to wear based on the temperature of the day. The most expensive thing is the suit that Mary bought for Liang Xi after he went to college. It was tailor-made by an Italian handmade tailor shop, and a pair of leather shoes worth up to one thousand pounds. Liang Xi only wore this outfit once when he accompanied John to Belgium to handle a case.
After returning home, Liang Xi first boiled some water, took his underwear and T-shirt and went to take a shower. After taking a shower, the water boiled, and he made a cup of tea, then sat in front of the computer and began to write his resume, preparing to apply for a job. It is impossible for a detective to be a detective. Seriously, if you are a detective, you will really starve to death on the street. The only ones who can survive in the detective industry are private detectives. Their daily work is to conduct background checks and investigations on targets at the request of employers. Strictly speaking, private detectives no longer belong to the category of traditional detectives.
As the hometown of Sherlock Holmes in the novel, London has an astonishing number of detective fans. In order to fulfill their dreams of becoming a detective, many young people will open their own detective agencies. Normal cases are investigated by the police, and only when the victim or the victim's family is dissatisfied with the police's investigation results will they seek the help of detectives. In addition, there are powerful people like Earl Davis who will seek the help of detectives when they do not want to alert the police and the media.
There weren't many bad guys to begin with, and the police took the biggest piece of the pie, leaving only a few crumbs that could never satisfy the huge number of detectives. Ten years ago, with the popularization of surveillance in urban areas, the improvement of police technical capabilities, and the improvement of the legal awareness of the people , detectives had become a very unpopular profession. In addition, this generation of young people rarely like slow-paced detective novels such as Sherlock Holmes. Not only can you not find traditional detective agencies on the streets of London now, but detectives have also often become a profession that is ridiculed and mocked in TV talk shows.
The best choice is to become a detective. Detectives are selected and assessed from police officers, so you have to be a police officer first.
There are three types of police officers in the UK. The first type is regular police officers, and the second type is community police officers. Both require physical training and testing. Liang Xi has congenital mild flat feet, which does not affect his life, but his foot endurance is poor and he is not suitable for endurance sports such as long-distance running and mountain climbing. He cannot pass the physical test through training.
The third category is volunteer police, which refers to police who have full-time jobs and use their spare time to perform police duties. Volunteer police do not have high physical requirements and receive a monthly subsidy. However, the problem is that you first need to have a full-time job. Detectives are not full-time jobs and are classified as self-employed individuals or corporate partners.
Graduation means unemployment, the future is full of fog, and you can’t see where your path lies?
Liang Xi didn't care about anything and went online to the job market to start sending out resumes. He didn't look at the major or the position, only the salary. Whether it was a corporate or public position, he would send out resumes if he saw a position with a monthly salary of more than 3,000 pounds. He cast a wide net and caught more fish. He thought that there would always be some stupid HR or boss who would take a liking to him.
After spending half an hour submitting his resume, Liang Xi picked up a book and started reading it, just like waiting for the college entrance examination score. Now he had done what he could do, and what would happen next was up to fate.
However, Liang Xi's reincarnation did not have any luck skills. Tianyi thought that most bosses still had intelligence. In the following week, Liang Xi did not receive any job application calls. He even suspected that he had filled in the wrong number. This is not a joke. He has calculated the probability. Why is e-mail fraud so rampant? It is not because the scammers are so smart, but because the population base is large, and there are always a few people who fall for it in the percentage ratio. According to this logic, at least one of his 120 resumes should have found the right person.
After receiving the lawyer's call, Liang Xi met with the lawyer in the coffee shop downstairs of the detective agency. The formalities were quickly completed, and John officially handed over the Rose Detective Agency and 5,000 pounds to Liang Xi. After a week of waiting for the application result, and eating at John's house many times, Liang Xi thought that he couldn't hang himself on a tree. So he decided to re-submit his resume at the detective agency and wait for the recruitment result again.
When meeting with the lawyer, Liang Xi learned that the 5,000 pounds was not the lawyer's money owed to John, but John's own money. But John had told the lawyer to give the 5,000 pounds to Liang Xi in the name of debt. Liang Xi was quite puzzled by this. On the one hand, when eating with him this week, Liang Xi did not find any signs of divorce between John and Mary. On the other hand, even if the marriage changed, Liang Xi's relationship with John and Mary would not change, so why did he give himself 5,000 pounds?
When I called to inquire, John replied: “If you don’t need it, you can return it to me.”
Liang Xi hung up the phone immediately. He had finally deducted some money, and now he wanted to take it back? No way!
